GENEALOGY-DNA-L Archives

Archiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2008-06 > 1213639698


From: John Cartmell <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] RES: Brilliant!
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:08:18 +0100
References: <113192.12286.qm@web88102.mail.re2.yahoo.com><002001c8cf0f$ab115cc0$9601a8c0@nomea8bed29038>
In-Reply-To: <002001c8cf0f$ab115cc0$9601a8c0@nomea8bed29038>


In article <002001c8cf0f$ab115cc0$>,
Ricardo Costa de Oliveira <> wrote:
> We are in a scientific list and the naming of America is a documented
> historical fact.

Fact?

> Amerigo Vespucci wrote letters from his voyages to the New World that had a
> very important impact in the Old World describing the new lands.

Except for those with a good reason to believe that the continent is named
after a Welshman from Bristol!
Facts are slippery things as those of us involved in genealogical research

know only too well. ;-)

--
John

This thread: